Like turning a crayon....

[sdb777]

Tamboti is greasy!


Sanding secrets please..... Gums up even the 100grit, 180grit didn't last very long, 220grit, 400grit, 800grit...my oh my!

Got a wonderful shine to it with just Miniwax Wood Hardener and some buffing wax. I'll get photo's later, got to take nap.....you know us old folks.



Scott (sanding crayons is for the birds) B

[Doug B]

Scott, I get sandpaper in the 50 yard (yep, that's 150' long rolls) that are 1" wide from Harbor Freight. They cost me $5.00 a roll and I have 80, 120, 180, and 240 grits. Oily wood just uses up a lot more sandpaper. I don't know of any way around it. That cheap HF sandpaper is just the ticket for oily woods because you don't mind going through a bunch of it.

Really, those rolls last a long, long time. I keep them on a dowel mounted just to the left of my lathe about head high, and use them like paper towels except you have to have scissors to cut the length you want. Very handy for turning. Oh, yeah, put something between each roll to separate them from each other so they roll off the dowel easily.

[sdb777]

As is typical, on a day where I don't need to go to work, I was awake at 2:30a. Unfortunately, the wife was still in bed until 8:00a....so I couldn't make any noise. I drank my coffee, LOTS of it and waited.

Here's the first one from today: (Tamboti wood and R&R Calls Reed)



Another shot:



Down the throat:





Well, the day was young and I had plenty of time to take a nap.... A good nap is hard to find!

Here's the second one from today: (American Cherry with R&R Calls Reed)



Another shot:







Think it's time to start selling these off before I'm overrun with them....







Scott (getting rid of some kids) B

[maverick31]

great job on both, they look awesome

[sachbvn]

I agree - nice job on these! Oily wood just plain sucks, no way around it. Thanks for the tip, Doug, on the great deal from HF on those sandpaper rolls. My preferred paper is 3M sand blaster brand cut into strips, you can get a lot of 11" strips out of a package of that stuff....a pack is about 3 bucks or so - but I see a noticeable difference between this kind and the cheaper woodriver kind I use - but for oily wood that is going to just clog it anyways - it's totally worth to use a cheaper kind.

Nice work!
Zac

[Doug B]

Wow. That Tamboti is pretty spectacular. Worth the hassle, eh? The Cherry one looks different than the Cherry I've used...what is the difference between American Cherry compared to Black Cherry? Nice set of call Scott.

Zac, this is my sanding setup - I have to admit I made some changes to it today before taking the pic. I decided that those wine bottle corks I have been saving would be just the thing to use to separate the sanding rolls - drilled them to fit snug on the dowel then cut them in half on the bandsaw and they worked great. For $20.00 of sandpaper, you cannot go wrong with this stuff...one of the few "gems" that Harbor Freight has.

[sachbvn]

That is a nice set up - I tend to probably over use some of the finer grits of my sandpaper - I really should just pitch it because the results could only improve. That is pretty slick with the cork separators!

Zac